If you're like me, you have opted for a computer with an SSD drive in order to increase the operating speed of Windows. You opted for a well known expensive brand but are still a bit nervous. And you have decided on a 128GB drive to reduce costs? Now you would like to free up some space, to install Pinnacle Studio over your previous versions of Avid Studio and Studio 17, 16, 15, 14? But you do not have enough free disk space on the C:\ system disk.

This tutorial will teach you how to quickly and easily free up a lot of space on your hard drive . . . . as long as you have another data disk.

Here is the solution, for experts in computer science, I am not responsible for any problems that you may encounter.

Save Several GB of Disk Space Before or After Installing Pinnacle Studio

It's simple, you redirect a folder on C:\ to another drive (other than the system disk), seamlessly to Windows and programs that use it.

Locate a directory that contains a large amount of data (which is large in size) - you may have to be patient for this, right click on different folders to check the properties including the size, to find a large directory (you know your system, you know what uses a lot of space, or programs that take up space)

NOTE: this directory should not belong to a program for which you require good performance. Let me explain: if you use a drive other than C:\ for the redirection, you will lose performance for that program. It's useless to have a SSD in this case you might say, and you are right! So choose a directory where slower performance is acceptable.

For me, it was an easy choice, I redirected the iTunes directories that contain music, backup, etc. In total, I gained 40GB of valuable space on my system disk! If you redirect the Pinnacle folder, you save a lot of space, of course, but you lose performance when you're editing with Pinnacle. Maybe you could redirect the directory of another program that you don't use very often. And accept the loss in performance when using this program. Understand?

So how do we do this redirect?

This is simple, we will use the "NTFS Junction Point" for Windows, ie tell Windows what directory it redirects. In my case, I chose to redirect the "backup" folder in iTunes, and here is the procedure:

Close all your active programs.

Create a directory on a drive other than C:\ (in my case, I created D:\iTunes-Backup\)

Move the large directory: C:\Users\user-name\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\ to D:\iTunes-Backup (replace user-name with the username of your machine). Be sure to move the directory and not to copy it. When done, the original directory should no longer exist (all that should remain is C:\Users\user-name\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\ ).

You will receive a confirmation message and there you are ... Open iTunes, look, no problem, it does its work as usual. And 40 GB is gained if you do the same with some other iTunes directories (or the whole iTunes directory)....
(you can also use relative paths, and use mklink /J "% appdata% \Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup" "D:\iTunes-Backup" instead of what I mentioned above).

If you get an error message indicating that a file could not be created, it is because you have not complied with paragraph 3, and you have kept the original directory (DOS command created the folder by itself).

With that done, I quickly returned to my installation, and there is no need to buy a second SSD! And tomorrow, I will do the same for my folder containing mail archives and a few other programs that I rarely use and, for which I do not need fantastic performance, to gain a few GB more.

Save a Few MB After Installation

Finally, after installing Avid Studio or Pinnacle Studio, you can save space by deleting help files for the languages ​​you do not speak ... Here is a list:

Now, PS 16.1.0.115 use C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Pinnacle\Studio\16.0 (don't touch it unless you know what you are doing !!)

Additional Information for Advanced Users

For a list of directories that have NTFS Junction Point, type:
dir /aL /s C:\

NTFS Junction points does not work at boot time, it is not possible to redirect:

directories that contain the hiberfile.sys file

\Windows

\Windows\System32

\Windows\Config

However, it is possible to redirect:

\Users

\Documents and Settings

\Program Files

\Program Files (x86)

Oh, and to clear/delete your NTFS Junction Point is very simple, because it is a shortcut, delete the shortcut (in our case, the Backup directory that is located in C:\Users\user-name\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\) and you return to the previous state by moving the folder D:\iTunes-Backup\ where it was initially...

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